WarPoet Book List
A list of books and publications that I’ve read while thinking about all of this (in no particular order).
Turner, Brian, Here Bullet, Alice James Publishing, Minn., 2005
Williams, Jeffery, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Leo Cooper/Secker & Warburg, London, 1985
National Defence, Preparing for Deployment Stress, Canadian Forces Medical Group, Directorate of Medical Policy, 2000
National Defence, Preparing for Critical Incident Stress, part of the Deployment Readiness Project, Director-Health Treatment Services (DHTS), Surgeon General Branch, 1994
Irwin, Anne, The Social Organization of Soldiering, A Canadian Infantry Company in the Field, a thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, Department of Social Anthropology, 2002
Reilly, Catherine, Chaos of the Night, women’s poetry and verse from the Second World War, Little Brown, London, 2007
Boyden, Joseph, Through Black Spruce, Viking Canada, Toronto, 2008
Lt.-Col. Horn, B, In the Breach: Perspectives on Leadership in the Army Today,
pub.?, 200? (purchased at used book shop in Edmonton)
Machado, Antonio, Border of a Dream: Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2003
Pigott, Peter,* Canada in Afghanistan: the war so far*, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2007
Chayes, Sarah, The Punishment of Virtue, The Penguin Press, New York, 2006
Docherty, Leo, Desert of Death: a soldier’s journey from Iraq to Afghanistan, Faber & Faber, London, 2007
Veterans Affairs Canada, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and War-Related Stress, Government of Canada Veterans Affairs, 2001
MacKenzie, Lewis, Soldiers Made me Look Good, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2008
Irwin, Robert, The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, Penguin Classics, London, 2006
Haroon, Sana, Frontiers of Faith, Hurst & Company, London, 2007
Heaney, Seamus, New Selected Poems, Faber & Faber, 1988
Busby, Brian, ed., In Flanders Fields and other poems from the First World War, Arcturus, London, 2008
Burke, Jason, On the Road to Kandahar: travels through conflict in the Islamic world, Bond Street Books, London, 2006
Graham, Hugh, Road of Fire: the war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1, Walrus magazine, December, 2007 pgs. 34- 36
Wardak, Enayatulla, Dari Phrasebook, Enayatulla Wardak, Quetta, Pakistan, 1997
Wahab, Shaista, Beginner’s Dari, Hippocrene Books, New York, 2006
Johnson, Chris, Afghanistan, an Oxfam Country Profile, Oxfam International, Oxford, 2004
Eurotalk Interactive, Learn Pashto, www.eurotalk.com, 2007
Tanner, Stephen, Afghanistan, a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban, Da Capo Books, Cambridge, MA, 2002
Kiviat, Katherine & Heidler, Scott, Women of Courage, intimate stories from Afghanistan, Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 2007
Director of the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, hidden Afghanistan, de Nieuw Kerk-Amsterdam, 2007
Siegfried, Sasoon, Memoires of an Infantry Officer, The Reprint Society Limited, London, 1940
Wing, R.L., The Art of Strategy, a new translation of Sun Tzu’s Classic The Art of War, Dolphine Doubleday, New York, 1988
Paine, Sheila, embroidery from Afghanistan, The British Museum Press, London, 2006
Canadian Forces Edition Good News Bible, Catholic and Protestant Editions, 2007, foreward by General (Retired) Rick Hillier
Linscott, R.N. ed., Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Doubleday, New York, 1959
Thesiger, Wilfred, Arabian Sands, Penguin Books, London, 1959
Hughes, Ted, Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, London, 2003
Stegner, Wallace, Crossing to Safety, The Modern Library Classics, New York, 2002